WP: Edwards Is No Cheney – And That's the Plan

[kskiska]

Monday, September 20, 2004; Page A04

Democrats welcomed John Edwards in July as a much-needed jolt of energy to John F. Kerry's presidential campaign and dispatched the North Carolina senator to small towns and rural communities in battleground states, hoping he would connect with voters by sharing his success story of growing up in a working-class family.

But as Kerry's poll numbers waned along with the sunny days of summer, some party leaders began to grumble that Edwards was not doing his part. While President Bush and Vice President Cheney bombarded the Democratic ticket with damaging attacks, critics said that Edwards was not aggressive enough in defending Kerry and roughing up the Republicans.

Edwards and campaign aides argue that he is playing the role for which he was cast -- to build up Kerry's image as a leader and to tear down Bush's record, especially to independent and swing voters.

"People are overreacting," Edwards said in a telephone interview last week. "The Republicans overreacted when we went up a few points in August and now the people on our side are overreacting to the polls swinging the other way.

"I think that I have two responsibilities," he continued. "To make the case for why John Kerry should be president and the second is to make the case as powerfully as possible about what this administration has done to America and the American people -- and that's what I'm out there doing. . . . That's why it is important for me to be strong and to fight back whenever they say outrageous things."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34247-2004Sep19.html

[PartyPooper]

1. Cheney deserves prison time after facing trial in the Hague.

John Edwards should be the lead prosecutor!

:bounce:

[fortyfeetunder]

2. That's right Edwards is no Cheney

No false heartbeat Halliburton sucking scumbag.

[Just Me]

3. Put your hands together, bow,...and thank God!!! n/t

[shanti]

4. hmmm

how is that much different than saying that kerry isn't *ush? can't they think of something better than that?

[henslee]

5. Edwards seems born for this campaign.

[OneBlueSky]

6. but why isn't Edwards all over the talking head shows?

I don't understand why he isn't being used on the political discussion shows . . . that's where a lot of people get their info about the campaign, and this is a huge missed opportunity, imo . . .

[eriffle]

7. Hmm, let me think

I'd take "ambulance chaser" Edwards over the regimes that harbor terrorists loving Cheney. I realized Cheney was bad news, but not this bad according to this article last week on The American Prospect
Article on Cheney

[question everything]

8. Maureen Dowd had a column

where she stated that the Kerry campaign did not use Edwards during the swifters attack.